NIC Teaming

[Michael Simpson]

On 3/27/08, Gerrard Geldenhuis <Gerrard.Geldenhuis at datacash.com> wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> It is also called bonding which might yield better results in google.
>
> It is actually very simple:
> Create a new file called ifcfg-bond0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
> with the following data inside:
> DEVICE=bond0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> ONBOOT=yes
> IPADDR=Your ip here
> NETMASK=Your netmask here
>
> In the interface that you want as part of the bond edit the appropriate
> file. For example ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth2 which can also be found in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
>
> You should edit out the ip address and netmask. Make sure the bootproto
> is none, keep the hardware address, add slave=yes and add master=bond0
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=none
> HWADDR=AA:AA:C4:BE:AA:AA
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
> SLAVE=yes
> MASTER=bond0
>

Hi there

i thought that you were meant to remove the HWADDR= lines from
ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 as bonding manipulates these values to make
the necessary arp magic work.

the documentation seems to support this view.

mike